QUINCY – A developer wants to knock down the former Temple Beth El, the last Jewish synagogue in Quincy, to make room for a 53-unit residential building on the outskirts of Quincy Center.

The project, submitted by Boston Property Development of Quincy, is the third residential complex that has been proposed this summer for the area just south of where Furnace Brook Parkway meets Hancock Street.

There are also plans to build 39 condominiums at the old Central Middle School site, located across the street from the temple, and 23 new condos at 10 Merrymount Road, on the same block as the former middle school.

The proposal to redevelop the temple, which closed in late 2012, still needs to be approved by the city’s planning board, zoning board of appeals and conservation commission. The plans at 10 Merrymount Road, also filed by Boston Property Development, have been approved by the planning board, while plans at the old middle school, proposed by Edgewood Development Co. of Plainville, have yet to be submitted.

City councilors Margaret Laforest and Kirsten Hughes, who represent Quincy Center, will host a hearing Thursday to discuss the proposal for the Temple Beth El property. The meeting, to start at 7 p.m., is open to the public and will be held at the temple, located at 999-1003 Hancock St.

Temple Beth El was the last of four synagogues Quincy once had. It opened in 1958 with 500 families, but by 2012 had dwindled to just 29 mostly older members. In 2013, the Jewish congregations in Quincy and Milton merged to form Congregation Beth Salom of the Blue Hills, which will build new worship space off Lodge Street and Gun Hill Street in Milton.

Boston Property Development is proposing knocking down the temple and constructing a building with 53 one- and two-bedroom units and an underground parking garage to hold 66 vehicles, according to Laforest. Representatives from the development firm will present their plans at Thursday’s meeting and respond to questions from the public.

Christopher Walker, a spokesman for Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch, said new tax revenue from three residential projects proposed downtown – at the former Beth El Temple, the former Central Middle School and at 10 Merrymount Road – can’t be used to secure funding for Mayor Thomas Koch's planned public park, tentatively called Adams Green. However, he said the new property taxes could be used to help the city pay back $40 million in debt that it accrued to pay for a new concourse and for other downtown planning purposes.

To pay for the park, Walker said Koch will seek funding through the state’s Infrastructure Investment Incentive Program, or I-Cubed, the approval of which hinges on the city’s ability to generate new tax revenue from its now-stalled downtown redevelopment project. Also, he said state grants will be sought to help pay for the park.